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The United States is the prison capital of the world. This is not
news to most people. When discussing the idea of mass incarceration, we
often trot out numbers and dates and charts to explain the growth of
imprisonment as both a historical phenomenon and a present-day reality.

But what does the geography of incarceration in the US actually look
like? In a literal sense, Prison Map is an attempt to answer that
question. See: Prison Map.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Store Front Window art work by Linus Grace at Safari Living, Melbourne Australia. Safari Living offers design, textile and objects. Linus, an architect with a penchant for wordplay and low technologies, speaks French, English and Italian.

Right:
Installation shot of Matthew Rose's PAINTINGS silkscreen works. From left to
right are the word as image works for Vermeer, Rembrandt and Morandi.
The entire edition (unframed) is also available at the gallery. Edition
is 10; 7 works in the series. Click image to enlarge.

The show is filled with other word-inspired works that sometimes require glasses and often times a taste for text, or at least books. In fact, one of the artists has sculpted the inside pages of various hardcover books and produced jewelry out of the composites of the pages. Worth a close read, this show.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

"I got tired of pushing consumerism in my day job as a fashion editrix," she told me in Paris the other day. "So I quit my post and started collecting fabulous vintage items in desperate need of a makeover."

The result is an eclectic line of one-of-a-kind purses and baubles that have been “reverse modernized”—made better by mixing old with new elements. Methinks this is not only good for the environment but good for folks who like their vintage in choice spots.

Laurie said: "Now I can sleep at night knowing that my love for style is not promoting landfill. In fact, it is doing the opposite, by rehabilitating castaways and presenting them as an alternative to new."

Laurie's Hexagon is on a few different sites: The Hexagon site for the brand-new Paris Collection, made of items found in French flea markets and vide-greniers. Click here:

Here's a sample: Are you fucking kidding me? Just in case you can't tell from the
picture, this is a photo of Tracey rubbing money against her vagina.
Which people are going to pay money to look at. That's like a Zoolander joke that the writers rejected for being "a bit transparent".

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

At Sotheby's New York on Wednesday evening expet some noise in the house. Edvard Munch's pastel of The Scream (one of several the Norwegian artist made), is set to shatter the ceiling and fetch $150 to $200 million. Warhol's 1.5 Elvis in Silver will probably net $30 to $50 million and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sleeping Girl” (1964) will most probably sell in the range of $30 million to $40 million. Yes, yes, yes, Brad. All that filthy lucre while the rest of us suffer in delicious depravity.